1908-D $20 Motto MS(PCGS#9148)

February 2025 Showcase Auction - U.S. Coins

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

2251

Grade

MS62

Price

3,120

Lot Description

Lovely golden-apricot surfaces are originally and carefully preserved, both sides just a few inconsequential marks away from a Choice Mint State rating. Sharply struck and worthy of the strongest bids. This is the premier Denver Mint Saint-Gaudens double eagle with the motto IN GOD WE TRUST included as part of the reverse design. Mint State survivors from a mintage of 349,500 pieces are scarce by the standards of the type, Q. David Bowers (2004) accounting for 7,500 to 12,500 or more examples at that level of preservation. This is one of the finer coins known to PCGS, and it would do nicely in a high grade gold cabinet.